tech and other interesting stuff
Toddling along After setting up my TIG (Telegraf-InfluxDB2-Grafana) stack, there were a few tweaks I had to make to get things up and going. My goal was to do something simple to get started – get a graph of Matrix homeserver pings, like JMG has: Pretty simple, in theory. Telegraf I set up the ping […]
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One of many There are umpteen “set this up” posts out there, so this falls squarely under the dual banners of “what I did” (to remind myself in case I need to set it up again, or describe to someone else), and “why I did it” (also to remind myself). aka tl;dr: this is how […]
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Ads-B-Gone I’ve been getting some quite obnoxious ads on my phone of late. In the past, I used Pi-hole, which blocks ads on the network level via DNS. By combining this with OpenVPN I had ad-blocking on my OnePlus 3. Things have moved on since then; the machine – a laptop ‘server’ – serving Pi-hole […]
Continue ReadingI set up a local Gitea server for some ‘local’ repositories- things like my accounts (in hledger format!) which I wouldn’t want on a server not under my own control. I considered doing this in Docker as that is a supported install method and I’ve enjoyed using Docker; but Gitea ties together a few services […]
Continue ReadingHelping us help you help us all The coronavirus lockdown is a great opportunity to try out more RPG gaming, as I previously mentioned. Playing RPGs in person generates a bunch of content, some of which is ephemeral and some of which is more permanent. Playing online, it would be nice to both: i) have […]
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